RICHARD Dix IN in "SILENCE" niin = LAST EDITION. |The "Let's Get Married" MAAAAAAA AAS rtrd -- YEAR 93; No. 184. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MORE TAX REDUCTIONS IN THE HON. J. A. ROBB HAS PLANS || 3 poe i 7 bc sa N GOVERNMENT SCORED: FOR FURTHER CUT IN TAXATION "mmm memo KING POWER AT ANY COST tes He Wil Be Able to Reduce Income Tax and Sales Tax--- reason they hate to see elections | have puzzled our brains over this | Issues of Federal Contest Dealt With at Meetin of Frontenac "We Will Get Back to the Conditions We Had Belore Addington Liberals---Decided Not to Place Candidate in the the War," Says Ex-Minister of Finance. g come around. To us, however, there | matter, but we are still ip the dark. | ield-~-Samuel Jamieson Re-Elected President, Ormstown, August 9.--With trade look the world in the face. We have is always one joy in connection with [At first we thought "R.S." might | Olden--J. N. Smith, Long Lake. Testored, taxes lowered, and to be res [reduced the debt, reduced expendi- an election, and that is the letters [stand for "Really Spoofing." But | that appears in our Princess street | that didn't satisfy us, and so we tried | Oso--Harold Thompson, - Sharbot duced still more in the budget which [tures and reduéed the taxes. True to Lake. would bring down next session of | his mentality and his role of ob- contemporary over various soul- | again and concluded that the initials | stirring noms-de-plume. | stood for "Raptured Standard." But | Anyone who recalls the 1925 cam- {that didn't suit either, because | paign will remember the letters that | we could tell that they were not] ! . appeared in the newsy and enter-|raptured, aWhough they tried to be. | Palmerston -- David ' lament, Canada may look for-| structive opposition, Mr. Molghen taining columns of our cotem. They | So after a good deal of brain-racking, | Snow Road. Bad on 2c A Bobb: Sk Melee of | sh her soons of soerea mes | RETO writen on many PUBIOie, an | we Soncunen se vot Sule-reckiny, so huey Wises J. A. M = yeev i: | Pinance, in speaking here Saturday |every trade agreement, every reform Porras. s. 8t a public gathering following the |and every reduction of taxation which smith. . holding of the convention which ask- | we introduced. When he himself did Shefeld--M. J. Hopkits, Erins "ed him to be Liberal candidate for | not oppose, some member of his new : with an eye to saying a good word | were really intended to express the | for Dr. Ross or patting our cotem. | innermost feelings of the writer when | urday next, ville, Chateauguay-Huntingdon. * It will be | temporary government has attempted 3a Liberal convention. Seid tn Storrington--Joseph Duff, Inver His seventh appeal to the electorate. [to block, and if given the opportunity : on the back. Not that it was not | he learned of the possibility of the | . ary, . Hon. Mr. Robb recalled that just!/they will fn less than four momths rey lage of Harrowsmith, on Sat y The action of the Frontemac-Ad- dington Liberals, in not nominating a candidate to.contest the riding; means the elimination of a three- cornered contest, and that the fed- era] election on September 14th, will be between Robert J. Bushell, the Progressive nominee, and Hon. Dr. J. W. Edwards, who is certain to get the Conservative nomination on Sat- Gemmill, Franklin, Shibley, Harrow= Former Minister of Customs, who died Saturday in Philadelphia, follow- ing an operation for appendicitis. HON. MR. BOIVIN deserving of the pats, mind you. It | popular "Jim" Halliday taking a| { . Wol s om Bvious to the last elections he had | destroy the reforms and jeopardize urday afternoon, no mention what olfe Island--J. D. Cosgrove, was. The nightly list of "The Exo- wrestle out of Dr. Ross, and stood | dus" to the United States was in| for "Resignedly Sorrowful." So itself worthy of some vigorous at that we let it rest. We don't . 3 » that | want to unduly worry our dear ever was made regarding the selec-| Wolfe Island. |the trade agreements of the last four | Pats Understand, however, .t | there jinedre g we refer to the October exodus friends, and it we were in their | tion of a Liberal standard-bearer for -- The homeward and not the January exodus. That position and suddenly realized that | the coming election. Although it Organization Needed w A exiled Canadians. was as not expressed, it was the opinion Previous to the calling of nomi pleasure. by § Mr. Robb, who of all present, that it would be poli- nations, the president M s 1 $ ' t tical suicide to place a Liberal candi- : p ent, Mr. Samue that the total for the Jamieson, made a few remarks in , With reservations, that £ would be reductions in taxation and | diminution in the public debt, and the 18st budget had fully fulfilled these © promises. "What of the future?" he asked. movement of noted with said six latter is an exodus of Canadians to |one of the most popular men in the | spend money, not to earn it. But who | city might be persuaded to | were these letters from? Ah! that's against our champion, and quite date in the fleld, when there was a connection with the activities of the "This year I am going to make an- other proposition, and take out some of the reservations, for I have looked {© earefully into the finances. I know " Ahow they were when I left office, and | next year I bring down the budget d 'I say this without reservation =I shall reduce income tax. I shall , reduce sales tax and in some instances "wipe it out. The policy of the Liberal party is to reduce taxes. We will get Canada back to the conditions that we had before the war." Hon. Mr. Robb said he was not complaining of having within such a short time been obliged to go before his electors, but rather welcomed the (occasion, believing that his friends electors in the country generally would vote approval of a budget (which had won general commenda- tion. He recalled that it was his 1o- tion in the House which had ealled for Immediate elections. After four rs and & half of Liberal rule, con- Hors in Canada 'had con- ly, sald Mr. Robb, there being nee 'home and abroad, » ! @ balance of 400 mil Ti tion of Canadian cur- By to the gold standard, all in rast with 1921 conditions. With Wious sections of the country di- vided as to tariff, with the western provinces in 1921 almost in. a state of open revolt, and boycotting "ana- dian manufactured goods, had it not been a wise course on the part of tre government to appoint a board of ex- pert business men to hear all sidas of the situation ? . Mr. Robb said that Mr. Meighen when he was defeated in 1921 secured 8. seat for himself by order-in-coun- cil, while Mr. King defeated in 1925 refused to accept any one of a dozen offered him, but waited until 'the House had assembled and his ~ government been sustained by a vote of confidence, and he held that this - showed that Mr. King had the groat- er regard for British constitutional practice. When the Mackenzie King government came into power after . the 1921 elections it was clear that wider markets were needed, and to this end the government had nego- lated treaties which meant that Canadian; i os were sold to 358 {million additional people under the most favored nation clause, and the results had justified such treaties, passed despite the opposition of Mr. Meighen &nd his friends. "Canada is again on the gold basis," d Mr. Robb. "We Canadians can months of 1926 was 34,698,/and to this must be added the immigration into Canada, which meant that for the six months of. the current year the influx had beg over 110,000 per- sons. This indicated that conditions had improved in Canada. When he had reduced the tariff on agricultural machinery, a wail had gone up that he had ruined that | dustry, yet, said Mr. Robb, the ondition of that industry is better than for many years, employing more labor, paying increased divi- dends, and selling goods cheaper. There had been the same wail as regards the tariff changes on auto- mobiles, the manufacturers threaten- ing to shut down, and attempting to swing the big stick by a delegation of 3,000 members cf that industry. "I told them that we were legislat- ing for the people of Canada, not for a trust manufacturing outside and assembling in Canada. I laid down 'conditions; that to enjoy the jraduced dutibs thex. manufac- re dt least 50 per cent. of the completed in Canada. That was where the shoe pinched, some of them were merely assembling plants in Canada with 32 to 35 represent- ing Canadian material and labor . It was made clear that if "automobile manufacturers wanted to enjoy the benefits of Canadian treaties and agreements ' favorable to Canadian products, they must come up to our standard and manufacture in Canada. As an inducement to increase manu- facturing in Canada, and in order to further reduce the price of cars to Canadians, I took the 5 per cent. axcise tax off all cars valued at $1,200 or less, made in Canada, the United Kingdom, or other countries giving special preference to Canadian products," The ex-minister said he had also compromised as to the 50 per cent. of Canadian material and labor, mak- ing it 40 per cent. for a year, when it would go to 50 per cent. "What is the result of all the row?" he demanded. "After all the Tory opposition, we have cheaper - cars, factories running overtime, Oshawa booming because of new factories going up at a cost of over $500,000. Does anybody now say we have Iturt the automobile business in Canada? No. We have put new life into it. Before the end of two years to meet the demands of the home market and the daily increasing export demand, the output will have to be doubled." blic dance halls. is that it! con- t exercise t it heart failure. t order adds that and ungraceful; hantartions and loosening of the joints, which Prejudicial to health, and that Fit is antagonistic to all artistic ap- control is only ae ermatont noes! 1 an more A +600,- soe." fe ot 338000 ot ser tary, the by 1k i] » going to his dadghter, Lady Ardee. another question. Well, they were from various patriotic citizens. We forget the exact signatures; but they were many, and always successfully disguised the identity of the writer. And now they have started again. The one signed "Farmer's Daugh- ter," was pretty good, but the one In the issue of Saturday signed "R. 8.0 was a dandy. Didn't you read it? Well, you missed something real. If you had read it you would have known that Mr, James Halli- day was announced as the Liberal candidate Friday. In fact, you would have had definite information on something closely affecting the Lib- eral executive, on which even they, themselves, have not yet got definite Information. And, best of all, you would have learned this a whole day ahead of the readers of The British Whig. You see, the "Standard" call- ; ; first hénd. We wish we could think of these clever stunts, but we are so slow In matters deeply affecting the Lib- eral party. But' we sympathize with our friends. They have no opportunity of offering the nomination to any- one; their candidates are picked tor them. They have to accept them year in and year out whether they like them or not, just as the Con- servatives of Belleville had to ac- cept Gus Porter, till Gus made a faux pas, and they were able to get rid of him and give somebody else a chance. . So if the element of sur- prise and speculation {is removed from their ranks we don't begrudge our newspaper brethren a little fun at the expense of the Liberals. But why the letter? Why "R.8."? And who is the mysterious "R.8." Funny that he would "want to con- ceal his {dentity when he was hand- i wind campaign. possible give him a trimming, we would feel "Resignedly Sorrowful" ourselves, But a word in closing. We want to help make these election cam- paign letters that appear so oppor- tunely in our contemporary more in- teresting. We admit we can't make our "Letters to the Editor" more Interesting than they are because it is a rule in The Whig office that all such letters must be signed by the real name of the writ- er. But where that rule does not obtain, the possibilities are bound- less. We want to help. So we would suggest adding to The Standard Hbrary for the use of the staff and other occasional contributors, the following books: Lord Chestertield"s Letters to His son. 3 Letters of a Self-made Merchant "Life and Létters of Wa os Page," y "The Letters of Junius." "The Complete Letter Writer." "One Thousand and Forty Noms- de-plume." Roget's "Thesaurus." "The Conversations of Mr. Dooley and Mr. Hinnissey." And anything else that will ada spice and variety to the campaign. We dislike seeing the same phrase- ology so often, and particularly when it smells of the sanctum. We are confidently looking to these cam- paign letters to tickle our risibilities, and keep us sweet-tempered during the wear and tear of the campaign; and 'we hope we will not be disa- pointed. And in the meantime, if Mr. Halliday does consent to be the Liberal standard-bearer, we want to assure our Princess street friends that they are in for a. real whirl. HERE T0 INTERVIEW DS.CR. PATIENTS E. H. Scammell, Assistant Di= diss > | Toronto, , | thur Meighen was in his ' Here's a Good Premier Meighen Oshawa, Aug. 7.-- William H. Moore, Liberal candidate in the rid- ing of Ontario, was lecturer in consti- tutional history at the University of when Right Honorable Ar- undergradu- ate days, at that institution. The Present prime minister was a mem- ber of Mr. Moore's class. "I was either a poor lecturer or else He siepe during my talks on re- ® government," is the 3 AD! Rh Jocular his illustrious he now opposes. | : | former minister of customs in the PASSED AWAY (His Death Removes An Ont: | standing Figure From the Political Stage. 9. -- Hon. Montreal, Philadelphia, Aug. | George H. Boivin, of Canadian Cabinet, died at St. Jos- eph's Hospital Saturday afternoon, following an operation for appendi- citis. Mr. Boivin, who came to Phila- Progressive already nominated. County Liberal Association, in -past years. Mr. Jamieson stated that for the past eight years, there had been * no active Liberal association, but thought that the time had arrived for the members of the party to get together to fight the Tory machine. The speaker stated that about eighty ber cent. of the Progressives were Two Addresses Given, | During the afternoon, the gather- ing, which was not, a large one, but nevertheless enthusiastic, listened to two fine addresses given by G. Anson Aylesworth, reeve of the village of Newboro, and brother of Sir Allan Aylesworth, a former Minister in the cabinet of Sir Wiltrid Laurier, and | .2°"2l8. and in 1921, the Progres Samuel Jamieson, president of the |' 'C,"Ominee, W. 8. Reed, had been | elected to parliament Frontenac-Addington Liberal Asso-|® > : clation, . 9 he president stated that he T thought the time was opportune to Mr. Aylesworth, In opening his ad- | . dress, stated that he had been rather form a Livers) iy " iy Liberal- misquoted in the press, regarding De- | Mm stos Sher with the people of j Canada to-day, than it has ever ing a candidate for either Progres- sive or Liberal honors. He said that Stood. He then asked if it was the delphia last Sunday as a delegate to the Knights of Columbus' convention, was removed from his hotel to the hospital Tuesday night after he had been taken suddenly iil. His condition' rapidly became steadily worse and an operation was to rally and became steadily weaker until death came shortly before four o'clock Saturday. Mrs. Boivin, who accompanied her husband, and their three children, were at the former minister's bed- side when he died. The death of Hon. George H. Boi- vin, former Minister of Customs and member of the constituency of Shef- ford in the House of Commons re- moves one of the outstanding figures from the political stage. His death, occurring in the heat of an election campaign, after a session in which he was often the storm cen- tre of debate, has aroused widespread sympathy. Acknowledged to be one of the most forceful and convincing speakers in the House of Commons, Mr. Bolvin was called upon to defend himself and his government repeated- ly during the debate on the report of the committee which investigated the Department of Customs and Excise. He was the head of the Customs Department at the time that Hon. H. H. Stevens made the sensational charges which resulted in the investi- gation. Upon him devolved very largely; the work of laying before the House the Government side of the case. Mr. Boivin had ® long and distin- guished political career. Since 1904¢ he was actively engaged in politics in his constituency of Shefford, al- though he did not actually enter the House of Commons until the general election of 1911. From that year un- til the date of the last dissolution of Parliament, he represented Shefford. He didnot once suffer defeat in his constituency after his réturn in 1911. One of the interesting events in the career of Mr. Boivin was his selec- tion by a Conservative Prime Minis- of Commons. At the opening of the first sessiofi of the 13th Parliament, Mr. Boivin, who had been selected by Sir Robert Borden, then Prime Minister, was elected to the post of Deputy Speaker. He acted in the capacity until the dissolution of that Parliament. : The appbintment of Mr. Boivin to the Privy Council, and also to the portfolio of Customs and Excise iH 2 41 fii he had no intention of running, un- wish of the gathering to eall for nominations for the officers, and ft less it had been found impossible to was then moved by H. C. Orser, Westbrooke No. 1, seconded by W. R. Davis, Elginburgh, that Samuel Jamieson be re-elected president; the motion was put by H. C. Orser get a man who was willing to enter the field and oppose Torylsm. Mr, Aylesworth stated that if this riding was allowed to go. by acclamation, the people throughout the Dominion 3 "SEY "that every person in Pro « Addington county was satisfied to have this riding ruled by the Conservative ' - party, and he for ome, did not feel ¥ ; : that way. He was delighted that the Progressives were able to nominate | Simon Jackson, Wagarville, and Wil such a fine man as R. J, Bushell, and lam Ritchle, Moscow. i with proper organization and team A nominating committe compose work, he . hoped that Frontenac 34 of Simon Jackson. Anson Ayles- county would not be represented by a Sorth, H. C. Orser and the president, Conservative at Ottawn Samuel Jamieson, was appointed and ' asked to bring in a list of the town 'Both Mr. Aylesworth and Mr. Jamieson, during the course of their Ship chairmen which was adopuad, addresses, defend 4 the action of the Liberal administration, under the Meighen Government Scored. ; Right Hon. Mackenzie King, and| The president was then called = showed clearly that it was not a question of whether it was right or wrong, what the Tories want is power, and they are going to try to get it at any cost. -- Election of Officers. The election of officers for the en- suing year took place as follows: President, Samuel Jamieson, Bat. tersea (re-elected). ed off by going right after the Mel ghen Administration. He said he thought that the Liberal party in Frontenac-Addington was rather weak at present, to enter into a fight, but he was satisfled with proper ofr. ganization, they would be heard from in the near future. He stated 1 there was no reason to be back as the Liberals had a duty to Vice-president, G. Anson form, and that duty was to put out ¢ worth, Newburgh. Power a government of autocrats. Secretary, Willlam Alfred Martin,| Mr. Jamieson stated that ¢ " Yarker. was one issue as far as the Con The township chairmen = were | vatives were concerned, and that wa chosen, and are as follows: the desire of the Con ves to Barrie--Walter Cuddy, Harlowe, , rule. The speaker fe to ti Village of Bath--Dr. Northmore, | fact that the Conservative y Bath. ruled for two-thirds of the Bedford -- Alphonsus since confederation. They ru Burridge. at different times until the people Camden--Eimer Jackson, disgusted and rose up and put. prise. out, as they did in 1898 nd Clarendon and Miller--Phillip| He sald that during the James Wensley, Wensley, the country had always Denbigh, Abinger and Ashby--Dr.| Dealing with the reeiproe ty Joseph Adams, Denbigh. fn 1911, the speaker stated that Ernesttown--D. O. Frink, Odésss.| £0Overnment, lead by the late Sir Hinchinbrooke--S8imon Jackson, | frid Laurier, could have passed fi 19 Wagarville. agreement with the United States Howe Island--John Pickett, Howe| they had a majority iu the house Island. fitty: but Laurier believed that Kaladar, Anglesia and Effingham | beople should-zote on the q ~J. F. Lloyd, Northbrooke. or Jresdant spoke ot he Kennebec--John Newton, Arden. on. Arthur Meighen, as v Kingston--H. 'C. Orser, West-| Hon. Arthur Meighén," who had brooke No. 1. to be elected by the people of Loughboro--Ross Guess, ada, as the leader of the govern ham. "He will never by elected Premise) * Village of Newburgh--J. BE. Har-| of Canada," said Mr. Jamieson. rison, Newburgh. Ayles- Mulville, Enter- ha M Syden- (Continued on Page 7.) had been crown prosecutor for the district of Bedford since 1907, was a K.C., and had been batonniere upon for a few remarks and he start-